Martin Bashir on Moore, Oklahoma: 'Perhaps the Worst Tornado in the History of the Planet'

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As NewsBusters has reported over the years, America's media love to hype every serious weather event.

On Monday, shortly after an F4 tornado demolished the town of Moore, Oklahoma, MSNBC's Martin Bashir called it "perhaps the worst tornado in the history of the planet" (video follows with transcript and commentary,

[Bernard Marx]

He should've seen the one in 1789 -- it blew away a heap many teepees.

Where do these brainless, uneducated idiots come from? This storm sadly did a lot of damage and killed/injured many people. But there were gigantic tornados before the region was heavily populated and media fools like Bashir around to display their own ignorance.

[central_va]

This is how you can tell an f5. Here is a picture from Jarrell Tx. The asphalt and grass have been sucked up. An f5 is like a huge vacuum cleaner.

[Spirochete]

It doesn’t even come close the the 1925 Tri-State tornado.

[ForAmerica]

I wish Bashir was hit by a tornado. Perhaps he’ll get deposited in Yemen or somewhere.

He looks like he would fit right in!

[manc]

think he;s from India who was brought up in America and now moved here and thinks he is smart and should be heard.

Think it’s him anyway.

If so then the man is a fool , an elitist fool who has no idea about the real world and works at a station which has only one purpose and that is to cover for their messiah like the rest of the cult of oabma

[.45 Long Colt]

I mentioned the Tri-State too, but I used slightly different stats, but that is beause the stats differ slightly based on the reference source. Some in 1925 believed more than 1,000 died. It was hard to get an accurate death count because it traveled over such a large area. Plus, there were places so utterly destroyed it was impossible to know if some of the people were blown away or if they left after the storm to look for work elsewhere. Some of the injured people were hastily put on trains and they never returned home. Because of inefficient communication, chaos, and the tremendous area involved, it was simply impossible to get precise figures.

[Wiser now]

The Tri-State tornado, March 1925 was massive:

http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/natural-disasters/4219866

[Republican Wildcat]

Yes...a much stronger tornado could have gone through the plains and done little damage...but this one hit a highly developed area.

[dr_lew]

Cf. Wikipedia article on the Tri-State Tornado

[muawiyah]

Tri State back in 1925 had 700 deaths.

Depends on how you measure these things ~ bodies, dollars, square miles of devastation, what?

[muir_redwoods]

Yes and at 6’1”, I am perhaps the tallest man who ever lived.

Perhaps, Martin.

[JimSEA]

Hyperbole is the main communication means for the left.

[Figment]

“You can tell an F5, even the grass gets sucked up. Learned that a the ‘97 Jerrell Tx tornado....”

Grass gets scoured in F-3 F-4 tornadoes. F-5’s scour asphalt and concrete. The Jarrell tornado did that. People in basements without concrete roofs were killed in Jerrell

[dfwgator]

Imagine how terrible it must have been back then without any advance warning systems.

[JaguarXKE]

Martin Bashier: Perhaps the worst talking head in the history of the planet.

[napscoordinator]

Thank you so much for the information on the tri-state 1925 tornadoes. That is what I love about this site!!!!! You learn something all the time.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Did he look at these?

http://www.epicdisasters.com/index.php/site/comments/the_deadliest_us_tornadoes/

http://www.rarenewspapers.com/view/591130

[scbison]

yep, everybody is moving to the south where their are tornados and hurricanes, so we should expect too see more of this.

[RedMonqey]

You learn something all the time.

Soo True

[dr_lew]

Liberals suffer from a silly modern conceit.

From the cited article:

If this happened today it would be the F'n end of the F'n world.